The End-of-History Smart Set

May 28, 2021 by

by Matt Purple, The American Conservative: Sound the knell: The public intellectual is dead. His intellect has been narrowed by specialization, while his place in the public square has been crowded out by Twitter edgelords and Clubhouse...

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The new clerisy

Jan 28, 2021 by

from spiked: Tom Holland, broadcaster, historian and author of Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind, is Andrew Doyle’s latest guest on Culture Wars. They discuss the enduring influence of Christianity on Western politics – including...

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Scepticism is not always the answer

Jan 21, 2021 by

by Giles Fraser, Unherd: Question life all you want – but it has no meaning without our shared humanity. When I was an undergraduate, I had a strange recurring dream: What if I was the only person in the world? I imagined a reality in...

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Thomas Sowell’s ‘conflict of visions’ — epidemiology edition

May 1, 2020 by

by Peter Hurst, UnHerd: Following his interviews with Swedish professor Johan Giesecke and English professor Neil Ferguson, Freddie Sayers posed a deceptively simple question in UnHerd this week: ‘which epidemiologist do you believe?’...

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In 2020, we need to fight the new thoughtpolice

Dec 26, 2019 by

by Frank Furedi, spiked: Speech, thought and culture are being policed on a terrifying scale. During the past decade, and especially this year, those in positions of influence have tried to change the narrative through which society...

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It is not falsehood that causes the greatest offence but truth

Apr 30, 2019 by

by Roger Scruton, The Conservative Woman: To people like me educated in post-war Britain, free speech has been a firm premise of the British way of life. As John Stuart Mill expressed the point, ‘the peculiar evil of silencing the...

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